Necrophobia by Harikiri: I have 2 guesses who wrote

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Submitted by synrgy on Tue, 2007-06-19 01:15.

I have 2 guesses who wrote this, and whoever it is already knows I LOVE it, before they even read my review.

This is the other area of drum n bass that I love at the deepest core of myself.  Nice and "GRRR!!!"  This stuff just relates to me on a personal level, something to do with my inner demons I guess.

Is that Slipknot I hear being sampled?  Yes it is.  Nice.

This is another one I had to go back and listen to a few times, TRYING to find something bad to say.  And for anyone who didn't write this who's reading this review, this is not a case of me rating the track highly for it's style.  If you listen to it objectively, it's all there:

The drums are crisp, I can hear the kick thump and click, I can hear the snare thud and thwack.  The atmosphere is lush.  The bassline has proper sub, mid, and high.  The arrangement is solid, stays interesting throughout, but still maintains a groove.  This tune manages to find a niche without being over the top, and whilst maintaining a voice of it's own.

It's got everything a reviewer could want.

Start shopping this to labels.  Send it to all the regular big name djs for this sound.  It's a smasher.

10.  no question.  I wish my angry shit was this good.

*edit* okay, tonight I had a chance to mix this tune with some other stuff, (on better speakers) and on those speakers it became clear that the tune is actually lacking sub bass.  even when I turned the bass up on the mixer, it just kinda made the drums bassier.  I'm not sure what the deal is there.  My initial instinct was to take points away, not much, I'd still give it a 9, but then I thought again, and decided that I judged all the tracks against each other on the same set of speakers, and should not dock you points when maybe my thoughts about all the others would change as well if I were to try to mix them/play them on better speakers...  Sorry for the ramble, but yeah, work on that sub, otherwise, SICK.